Mortality in Uganda, 2020

Uganda
2020
Life expectancy: 66.4
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   2020  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Uganda was 66.4 years in 2020: 69.4 for women and 63.4 for men, a gap of 6.1 years. 238,847 people died; 22.0% of them were 65 or older and 29.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
66.4
Women
69.4
Men
63.4
Life expectancy at 65
15.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
32.1
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
43.5
Deaths
238,847
Deaths per 1,000 people
5.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
299
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
212
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2020's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
029.1136.8969.463.4
1-42.962.9570.564.7
5-90.880.9867.361.4
10-140.710.8462.656.7
15-191.161.6257.852.0
20-241.682.5453.147.4
25-292.243.1948.542.9
30-342.944.1044.038.6
35-393.925.5239.734.3
40-445.187.4735.430.2
45-496.9510.3431.326.3
50-549.7614.8927.322.5
55-5913.6621.2123.519.1
60-6420.4331.5820.015.9
65-6928.9243.7916.913.2
70-7437.2157.4114.110.8
75-7946.6475.5811.58.6
80-8466.77108.378.86.5
85-89120.25195.056.34.5
90-94186.41280.364.63.4
95-99271.25369.483.42.6
100+379.65469.512.62.1